- Date
- October 2, 2025, 17:00 local (22:00 UTC)
- Place
- Chaseley, ND
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N91042Piper PA-18-150
- Defining event
- Landing: Nose over/nose down
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report February 12, 2026
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20251002014379A
- Case key
- 201824
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Probable cause
The pilot’s excessive braking during the landing roll, which resulted in a nose over.
Findings · 1
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
The pilot reported that he landed in a harvested soybean field and tapped the breaks “a little too hard.” The airplane nosed over and came to rest inverted. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the wings, right wing strut, rudder, and fuselage. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation. The pilot further reported that the accident could have been prevented by “rolling out a little longer” and being “gentle” on the brakes during the landing roll.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N91042
- Reported as
- Piper PA-18-150
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18-8109067
- Built
- 1981
- Airframe hours
- 4,901.4
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-A2B, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · December 18, 2024
- Departed
- 5H4 · Harvey, ND
- Airport
- N/A
- Equipment
- ADS-B, Electronic flight bag or handheld device, Handheld GPS
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 30
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- September 29, 2025
- Seat
- Front
- Restraint
- Lap only
- Flight hours
- 1,494.2 total · 17 in this make and model · 1,398.4 as pilot in command · 65 in the last 90 days · 9.1 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 170° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 4 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 77 °F, dew point 48 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.01 inHg
- Observed at
- K46D, 27 nm away
- METAR
- K46D 022335Z AUTO 17007KT 4SM HZ CLR 25/09 A3001 RMK A01,M
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on February 12, 2026, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 6.4 MB in all.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N91042 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.